A look inside our sixth generation of server hardware

This post details the design and implementation of Dropbox's sixth generation server hardware, codenamed Scooby (storage), Diego (database), and Cartman (compute), along with Coco for the edge network. It highlights specific hardware configurations for each tier, such as drive density for storage, CPU cores and NVMe SSDs for databases, and core count and RAM for compute. It also discusses the rationale behind general-purpose server designs over service-specific 'snowflakes' and outlines future exploration of ML accelerators and HAMR drives.